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Good morning. Today’s temperatures: Logan: 23 - 36° 🌨️ | 30% 💧 | ⚠️ Salt Lake City: 31 - 37° 🌨️ | 60% 💧 | ⚠️ St. George: 39 - 53° 🌧️ | 50% 💧 ⚠️ Wind Advisory We've been waiting all year, and Thanksgiving leftovers are finally here! Check out this guide to saving, reheating and reimagining Thanksgiving leftovers.
Also on our mind: Why former BYU President Kevin Worthen is loving Yale, are you actuallty saving money with Black Friday sales and one in four Americans estranged from their families. |
| You buy 3 baby chicks at a Light the World Giving Machine. Here’s the good that happens next |
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| | If you like to buy baby chicks for charity at the big red vending machines during the holiday season, here’s the rest of the story about the good they do. In 2020, Church World Service Africa took some of the money for baby chick donations made at the Light the World Giving Machines and used it to give three chicks each to 90 women in a village in Muganza, Tanzania. The charity’s leaders returned to the village in January 2022. What they found buckled their knees. The women had turned those 270 2-month-old chicks into 5,000 chickens. “They are rich women now,” Mary Obiero, director of relief development and protection said. “They are respected women. Everyone is coming to them for advice.” |
Read more about how the Light the World Giving Machines are amplifying women’s voices in Africa. |
| Over the past six years, the Utah Legislature has appropriated more than $94 million to operate, maintain and renovate facilities from the 2002 Winter Games, a total that’s expected to eventually exceed $140 million. But $41.5 million of those tax dollars had not been distributed due to questions raised about oversight. “There is confusion as to what organization is responsible for overseeing these dollars,” said a memo from legislative staff distributed at the appropriations committee meeting on Nov. 14. Read more about why Utah lawmakers are stepping up oversight of state spending on Olympic venues. More in Politics: Committee to elect Romney-Manchin says it will reveal donors, calls on critics to do same (Deseret News) Cliff Smith: Perspective: Why character matters to us, and the new speaker of the House (Deseret News) | FROM OUR SPONSOR UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Save Big on Cyber Monday: Get $10 Off Per Ticket at the Utah Shakespeare Festival! Get ready! Get set! Save big! Get $10 off on November 27 for Cyber Monday. The 2024 play lineup includes: Henry VIII, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The 39 Steps, Silent Sky, and The Mountaintop. | Faith A complete list of all announced Latter-day Saint temples (Deseret News) The history of the hymn ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’ (Deseret News) Apostles honor President Ballard, their late leader in the Quorum of the Twelve, in social posts (Deseret News) Family 1 in 4 Americans is estranged from their family members (Deseret News) Are you actually saving money by shopping on Black Friday? (Deseret News) Utah It’s not the ‘Y,’ but ex-BYU President Kevin Worthen is loving Yale (Deseret News) Warnings, advisories issued as winter storm could impact some Thanksgiving travel in Utah (KSL) Utah considers changes to 'very unique' reward program for reporting poachers (KSL) The West The complicated ethics of creating fake snow (Deseret News) That Christmas movie you hate to love was filmed in Utah (Deseret News) The Nation Attorneys for Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard respond after accusers step forward (KSL) How to know if multivitamins are necessary for your health (Deseret News) The World Israel and Hamas to start four-day truce on Friday — Qatar mediators (Reuters) Dublin riot sees clashes with police after five hurt in stabbings (BBC) Sports BYU is reimagining football rivalries off the field (Deseret News) Can BYU season be successful without a bowl berth? (Deseret News) How did BYU fare against Arizona State in Las Vegas? (Deseret News) |
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